Senior Reporter @CanaryMediaInc | TED speaker | Past contributor for @grist, @IEEESpectrum, etc | Hunched-over mom of toddling child
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Are you following @CanaryMediaInc yet? If you care about the energy transition, you should be!
Let me demonstrate with the help of this week’s stories…
Look inside your pantry or fridge. Chances are it's stocked with goods that were made by burning fossil fuels. My new @CanaryMediaInc feature looks at how food & beverage firms are trying to decarbonize the tastiest slice of U.S. manufacturing 🧵 1/
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Still, if it was simple to do, more facilities would’ve installed electric systems by now. But the costs, complex logistics, & cultural hurdles involved with switching mean that most manufacturers have been using the same kind of fossil fuel-burning boilers for over a century 5/
A patchwork of gov't programs and recent technology advances are helping to propel efforts to decarbonize food & bev factories. And, as firms like Oatly take the first steps, their real-world experiences could ease the qualms of reluctant manufacturers 6/6 canarymedia.com/articles/cle…
New feature just dropped! 👇A tastier twist on industrial decarbonization than my usual fare
Food & beverage plants need lots of heat to make supermarket staples—energy that today comes from burning gas. But companies like @oatly and @KraftHeinzCo are exploring how to decarbonize their facilities, @mariagallucci reports in her new feature: ow.ly/yqFN50UPpR2
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The federal Buy Clean initiative was meant to boost US manufacturing of low-carbon steel & other building materials. That effort ended this week when Trump rescinded the program.
But state Buy Clean initiatives will continue, @mariagallucci reports: ow.ly/T7RZ50UMcR0
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Geothermal startups hit funding and project milestones this year, buoyed by growing demand for carbon-free energy from data centers, factories, and EVs.
Reporting by @MariaGallucci: ow.ly/evXV50UuW6J
It's been a bit since I've revisited the shipping beat, but this week I have a @CanaryMediaInc piece on harnessing wind power for cargo ships—elegant schooners & gargantuan freighters alike. Upcoming climate regs could help the old tech gain more momentum: canarymedia.com/articles/sea…
If you blissfully ignored social media late last week, as I did, then check out our Thanksgiving round-up of 5 clean energy bright spots today ☀️
~72M people traveled by car over Thanksgiving last week, crisscrossing US highways, bridges & tunnels — infrastructure that was likely built w carbon-intensive materials. I wrote about a $1.2B federal initiative to curb emissions from concrete, steel, etc
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…Also like the lasers of my imagination.
Nice piece by Sarah Shemkus/@energynews_US on high-tech ways to clean up Maine’s CO2-intensive pulp and paper industry—which accounts for about 1/2 of the state’s industrial emissions
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And yet another Texas clean energy story from @CanaryMediaInc this week: The world's largest grid storage project using old EV batteries is now online near a West Texas wind farm canarymedia.com/articles/lon…
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If you missed today’s super-informative #SEJWebinar with @CanaryMediaInc, “Covering the Tough Stuff: How to Report on Industrial Decarbonization,” you can catch the recording, chat log and resources here at your convenience: sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar…
With record-breaking air travel expected in the U.S. for Thanksgiving next week, we figured it'd be a good time for a useful primer on "sustainable aviation fuel." Here are my (long) answers to 5 key questions on this squishy industry term @CanaryMediaInc
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Good morning! There's still time to register for our webinar today at 1PM ET with @sejorg, where we'll talk about the key materials that fortify & infuse our modern world (and that are super CO2-intensive to produce) sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar…
Texas may be the country’s oil & gas heartland, but it’s also the most dynamic market for clean energy — hence why a Google Nest spinout wants to build a 1GW "virtual power plant" there that turns smart thermostats into grid resources. By @jeffsaintjohn canarymedia.com/articles/vir…
Last week, Massachusetts lawmakers signed a long-awaited climate bill that: limits gas pipeline expansion, makes it easier to site & build renewables, and allows utilities to use geothermal energy to heat & cool homes. @carrie_klein_ has the details! canarymedia.com/articles/pol…
